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The CNPP and the CSOs were reacting to the indictment of the Federal Government-owned NNPCL by the World Bank over lack of transparency in the financial gains from fuel subsidy removal as well as observations of the global bank on subsidy arrears that are still being deducted and the impact of subsidy removal revenues accruing to the Federation Account.

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has reacted to the call by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on President Bola Tinubu to probe the $15bn and N200bn missing oil revenues, insisting that the President must suspend the top management team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) for effective investigation.

The umbrella association of all registered political parties and political associations in the country, in a statement signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, James Ezema, also faulted “calling off the jamboree tagged nationwide protests by the Nigeria labour unions after the first day without any concrete roadmap on how the government intends to ameliorate the hardships faced by Nigerians following the petrol subsidy removal.”

The Conference Of Nigeria Parties and a coalition of civil society groups aegis of the Coalition Of National Civil Society Organisations have called “for immediate release of the abducted suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) as the court has already granted him bail”

The CNPP and the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja and jointly signed by the CNPP Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu and the National Secretary of the CNCSOs, Alhaji Ali Abacha, the groups noted that from their investigations, “allegations against the EFCC chairman were mere concoctions and at best, imaginary.”